- plural of die.
dice
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Have you had enough of the mayor you know, and are you ready to roll the dice on someone you don’t?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
"We're rolling the dice with our children," Carter declared at a House of Representatives hearing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
"We are rolling dice with immense risks," Clark said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
He plans to pay the fine — roughly one game’s worth of pay — pass go and roll the dice again like nothing happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
It’s the only thing I have left, my last roll of the dice.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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Is it an instance of possibly doomed men gamely putting on a show for others who may be about to die?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
With its gridlocked terminals, infuriating delays and long lines for everything from security checks to coffee, LAX might be where patience goes to die.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
"I don't want to die estranged from Meghan. I want to meet my grandkids. It might be nice to meet her husband too," Markle told the Mail on Sunday at the time.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Nearly 85 percent of patients die within five years of being diagnosed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
We listened and listened, but all we could hear was the droning tones of the noise we had made die away in the thick timber.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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As an adult, you realize more and more how money slices and dices us into First Class and Priority, the not you’s and the not yets, the zip codes and carets.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024
Michael C. Hall slices and dices the departing ‘Dexter’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
At Wellesley College, Dr. Angela Carpenter teaches the foundation of language creation, which she dices into roughly six blocks: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, grammatical rules of verbs, and nouns and what they indicate.
From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2020
As a Duke product working under Cutcliffe with connections to the Manning brothers, Jones often gets labeled as a cerebral signal-caller who dices defenses up mentally.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 2019
“Bueno, ¿Y qué me dices? What’s the news from the sixth-grader?”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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Processing tomatoes — those used in products such as canned diced tomatoes and ketchup — are also fetching lower prices than they did a few years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
They're 16th in the Championship having diced with relegation last season, eventually finishing 20th in what was Montgomery's breakthrough season.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Myka’s fro-yo is served with toppings like extra-virgin olive oil, diced figs, Maldon salt and a hazelnut cream mixed with the crunch of kataifi, an ingredient made famous by Dubai chocolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
They ask for tuba compuesta, or “composed,” with muddled red berries and diced apple, giving it an inviting pinkish color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Succotash—okra, corn, tomatoes, and peppers—sliced, diced, boiled, then fried.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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In the first half, Chambliss led four scoring drives, dicing the LSU defense up with intermediate passes and connecting on deep bombs down the sidelines, as the Rebels built a 24-7 lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
But that relationship breaks down when you’re counting only payroll workers, slicing and dicing the statistics into industry sectors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
In-between dicing up celery and stirring bubbling meals, which will be distributed to the local area, he's learning more about the charity and what they do.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024
Instead, the federal system leaves that slicing and dicing for a different phase of the criminal justice system: sentencing.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023
The men of the Golden Company were outside their tents, dicing, drinking, and swatting away flies.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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